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“That’s part of an animated film following the playwright and screenwriter David Hare as he travels through Israel and the West Bank looking at the route and the effect of a barrier that is still under construction. It is called Wall and it will be screened tonight at the British Film Institute.”

BBC bias: Despite less than 20 miles (6%) of the security barrier being concrete*, S4C follows standard BBC policy of never showing the other 94%, deliberately giving the impression that the barrier is entirely or mostly a concrete wall.

BBC bias: At 0:33:57. series presenter Ffion Dafis silently hugs an unnamed female ‘fixer’ who (0:32:55 to 0:34:00) has just said …
“Many people start to think, okay only God protects me, and many others say, what if I die now, nothing will happen, so that’s why we lose the sense of life, no-one cares, and then we face fear, we face, we see our rights being smashed on the floor, and that we are treated as if we weren’t even human beings, with soul and feelings and emotions, it’s like just creatures, you know, or insects, anyone can step on themand just walk. So when you feel that, you stop caring.”

“In a two-part series, eight British Jews with a broad range of opinions, beliefs and practices, go on a journey to explore what it means to be Jewish in Britain today and examine some of the most pressing questions and challenges facing the Jewish community at home and in Israel.(more…)

this evening (monday 2nd), 9.51-9.59pm, on bbc world service radionewshour (presented by tim franks) concludes with …

“Over the last 14 years, Michael Sfard has garnered a reputation as Israel’s most prominent human rights lawyer. What has changed now, he says, quietly but profoundly, is the nature of the occupation.”

“The British graffiti artist Banksy is opening a guest house on the occupied West Bank, which he claims will be the hotel wth the worst view in the wotld. The building in Bethlehem is a few feet from part of a wall which was built by the Israelis.”

the bbc devotes about one-third of this programme about walls to the israeli security barrier, of course continually referring to it as a wall, and enabling one guest to say … (Garett Carr, 0:21:23) “They want to see what the Israelis have built, becausethat’s a real bloody wall, good enough for Banksy to have to do the ones that he does with it, with the marvellous graffiti.”

this morning (monday 27th), 9.00-9,45am, on bbc radio 4‘build that wall’: barriers and crossings (in the start the week series) (presented by kirsty wark)

“Kirsty Wark explores what it means to live either side of a wall, and whether barriers are built to repel or protect. …Israel has been building its own separation barrier since the turn of the century, but Dorit Rabinyan is more interested in psychological barriers that drive Palestinians and Israelis apart.”

including contributions from …
• dorit rabinyan, author of all the rivers (gader chaya), a love story between a Jewish Israeli woman and a Palestinian man
• map-maker garrett carr
• historian tom holland(more…)